Marie windsor actress death

American actress (–)

Marie Windsor
Windsor in
Born	Emily Marie Bertelsen ()December 11, Marysvale, Utah, U.S.
Died	December 10, () (aged&#;80) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Mountain View Cemetery, Marysvale, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years&#;active	–
Height	5&#;ft 9&#;in (&#;cm)
Spouse(s)	Ted Steele (; annulled) Jack Hupp (–, her death)
Children	1

Marie Windsor (born Emily Marie Bertelsen; December 11, – December 10, )^[1][2] was an American actress known for her femme fatale characters in the classic clip noir features Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin and The Killing.

Windsor's height (5'9", &#;cm) created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors. She was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre.^[3]

Early years

Windsor was born in in Marysvale, Utah, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Road Bertelsen.^[4] She graduated from Marysvale High School in , doing a "musical reading" as part of the graduation exercises.^[5] She attended Brigham Young University, where she participated in dramatic productions.^[6][7] She was described in a newspaper article as "an accomplished athlete expert as a dancer, swimmer, horsewoman, and plays golf, tennis and skis."^[8]

In , Windsor was chosen from a collective of 81 contestants^[9] to be queen of Covered Wagon Days in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[8] She was unofficially appointed "Miss Utah of " by her hometown’s Chamber of Commerce,^[10] and trained for the stage under Hollywood actress and coach Maria Ouspenskaya.^[11]

Voluptuous and leggy, but unusually tall (5'9") for a starlet of her generation, Windsor felt that she was handicapped when playing opposite actors of average stature (claiming she had to progressively bend at the knees walking across the room in scene with John Garfield).^[12] As she later recalled, a performance with the 6’5” Forrest Tucker as co-star made her joyful with finally getting a male lead who was her 'own size'.^[12]

In later years, thanks to her early screen success, Windsor was able to pursue her studies more extensively, primarily with Stella Adler^[10] and also at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.^[13]

Windsor worked in radio in Salt Lake City before moving to California.^[14] In California, she worked as a model for glamor photographer Paul Hesse.^[15]

Stage

In , after her move to Hollywood and entering Ouspenskaya's drama school, she appeared in the play Forty Thousand Smiths, her first operate of the stage name "Marie Windsor".^[11] The next year she appeared in Once in a Lifetime at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[16] She also played a villain in a New York movie of Follow the Girls.^[17] Years later, in the s, she returned to the stage.^[18]

Film

After productive for several years as a telephone operator, a stage and radio actress, and a bit part and extra player in films, Windsor began playing highlight parts on the big screen in ^[19]

Her first film condense, with Warner Bros.

in , resulted from her writing jokes and submitting them to Jack Benny. Windsor said she submitted the gags under the label M.E. Windsor "because I was afraid he might be prejudiced against a woman gag writer".^[14] When Benny finally met Windsor, "he was stunned by her good looks" and had a producer sign her to a contract.^[14] After a tenure with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which the studio "signed her, put her in two small roles and then promptly forgot her", she signed a seven-year contract in with Enterprise Productions.^[15]

The actress' first lasting role in was with John Garfield in Force of Evil playing seductress Edna Tucker.

Windsor's height 5'9", cm created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors. She was the female guide in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre. Windsor was born in in Marysvale, Utahthe daughter of Mr. Alley Bertelsen.

She had roles in numerous s film noirs, notably The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City That Never Sleeps, and the Stanley Kubrick heist movie, The Killing, in which she played Elisha Cook, Jr.'s, scheming wife.

She also made her first foray into science fiction with the release of Cat-Women of the Moon (). Windsor co-starred with Randolph Scott in The Bounty Hunter ().

Television

Later, Windsor moved to television. She appeared as "The Mutton Puncher" in season 3 of Cheyenne, in She appeared in as Belle Starr in the premiere episode of Stories of the Century.

In , she played Ann Jesse, a woman dying in childbirth, in the episode "The Wanted Man" of Lawman. Windsor appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones; episode "Twenty Million Alibis" (May 5, ).

Windsor worked consistently through the s, s and s. She appeared on programs such as Cheyenne, Bat Masterson, Bonanza,Tales of Wells Fargo, Yancy Derringer, 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick (in the episode titled "The Immediate and the Dead" with James Garner and Gerald Mohr as Doc Holliday) and (in the episode "Epitaph for a Gambler" with Jack Kelly), The Red Skelton Hour, Hawaiian Eye, Perry Mason, Bourbon Street Beat, The F.B.I., The Incredible Hulk, Rawhide, Adam, Mannix, Charlie's Angels, General Hospital, Salem's Lot, and Murder, She Wrote.

Windsor remained on screen once or so annually up to the s, playing her final role and going into retirement in at the age of

Recognition

Windsor has a star in at N. Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Amble of Fame.

Marie's femme fatale (Ms. Windsor was later quoted as saying a femme fatale is ' usually the chick who gets the man into bed then into trouble') was on screen, most notably her role as the manipulative, double-crossing wife of Elisha Cook Jr. in The Killing () (which earned her "Look" magazine's Top Supporting Actress award).

It was dedicated January 19, ^[20]

In , Windsor received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best actress for her labor in The Bar Off Melrose.^[18] She also received the Ralph Morgan Award from the Screen Actors Guild for her service on the organization's board of directors.^[18]

Personal life

Windsor was married briefly to bandleader Ted Steele.^[17] They were wed April 21, , in Marysvale, Utah.^[21] They divorced that same year^[18] (an item in a newspaper column says that the marriage was ended by annulment, not divorce).^[22]

In July , newspaper columnist Louella Parsons reported, "Marie Windsor has put her marriage to Alex Lunciman, a Beverly Hills stock broker, for October".^[23]

She married realtor^[3] Jack Hupp, a member of the U.S.

Olympic basketball team. Hupp had his own family connection with show business; he was the son of actor Earle Rodney.^[3] Hupp, with whom Windsor had a son, Richard Rodney, was inducted posthumously into the University of Southern California (USC) Athletic Hall of Fame in Hupp had a son, Chris, from a prior marriage.^[1][24]

Windsor was politically conservative, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.^[25] A Republican, she supported Dwight Eisenhower's campaign in the presidential election.^[26]

After her acting career ended, Windsor became a painter and sculptor.

Windsor was also a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[27]

Death

Windsor died of congestive heart failure on December 10, , the night before her 81st birthday.^[18] She is interred with Hupp in her native Marysvale, Utah, at Mountain View Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Source:^[28]

Television

References

Citations

Further reading

• Oderman, Stuart, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, ISBN&#;

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